Bulandshahr (UP), May 28 -- A youth accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl was arrested in an encounter with the police in Khurja Dehat area of Shahjahanpur district here in Uttar Pradesh, a police officer said here on Wednesday.

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Tejveer Singh said that based on an information Khurja Dehat police went to raid a tubewell in the jungle near Nangla Cheeti village in search of the accused of raping a minor girl on Tuesday night. "Seeing himself surrounded by the police, the criminal started firing at the police. In the retaliatory firing by the police, the criminal sustained bullet injury in his leg and got injured," he said.

He said that the arrested criminal has been identified as Ravindra, a resident ...